Hunwick Almanac
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Hunwick, Durham Lat:54.6864 Lon:-1.7086
Weather for Hunwick
Weather: overcast
Temperature: 11.9°c
Pressure: 1006.8 mb Δ0.33 Steady
Humidity: 79%
Wind: 28° 12kts
Forecast: Fairly fine, showers likely ☂
Hunwick Sunclock for 02 May 2024
Solar times
Sunrise: 05:24:59
Sunset: 20:43:47
Lunar times
Next full moon: 2024/5/23 13:53:03
Next new moon: 2024/5/8 03:21:51
The clock above shows the times and dates of astronomical events with reference to BST Today, times are shown inside the circle and dates outside the circle (one solar day and one year respectively).
It shows times of sunrise and sunset plus Dawn and Dusk, it also shows times of moonrise and moonset.
The blue sections of the face show times of three definitions of twilight, light blue is civil twilight where there should be enough light to conduct normal activities, mid blue shows nautical twilight where there is enough light to be able to see the horizon for navigation and dark blue shows astronomical twilight when it is not dark enough for astronomical observations.
The dates shown are for the current moon phase along with dates for the Equinox's, Solstice's and cross quarter days.
Hunwick Sidereal, Solar and Mean Time.
Siderial time or angle expressed in Hours, minues and seconds is a system whereby astronomers can locate celestial objects in the sky and is based on the time it takes the Earth to rotate to the same direction in space with reference to distant stars (as opposed to the Sun ) which is aproximatly 23 hrs 56 mins. Siderial time and Greenwich Mean time are aproximatly equal at the Autumn Equinox and siderial time will gain about 4 minutes each day throughout the year so each year there is one extra siderial 'day' compared to the number of solar days.
Apparent Solar Time is based on the rotation of the earth and the position of the sun in the sky with respect to the local meridian. This is the time as shown on a sundial, and is represented on the clock above by the orange hand. This is the oldest method of timekeeping dating back over 5000 years to egyptian times.
Greenwich Mean Time GMT, is the average (mean) solar time at the Greenwich Meridian 0° longitude. Until 1972 GMT was the International civil time standard, this has now been replaced with UTC (Universal Coordinated Time).
Local Mean Time is the average (mean) solar time for your local meridian, your longitude(-1.7086°) will determine if you are ahead or behind your timezone by a factor of 4 minutes per degree, locations further West are behind.
Prior to the coming of the railways, most major towns adopted local mean time, which was dependant on their longitude so Penzance local time was 20mins later than Greenwich, this caused problems with the railway timetables, to solve the problem local clocks were set from the railway train guards watch so all of the UK started to use Standard time (GMT) also called 'railway time'.
The difference between Apparent Solar Time and Local Mean Time can vary by as much as +- 16 minutes throughout the year, this is known as the Equation of time,
and is due to the tilt in the earth's axis and eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
The length of a solar day, the time between two successive solar noons varies from 24h 30s in December to 23h 59m 39s in September.
Equation of time graph for Greenwich 0° Longitude.
Difference | Value | Date |
---|---|---|
Sundial behind | -14 min 15 s | 11 February |
Same time | 0 min 0 s | 15 April |
Sundial ahead | +3 min 41 s | 14 May |
Same time | 0 min 0 s | 13 June |
Sundial behind | -6 min 30 s | 26 July |
Same time | 0 min 0 s | 1 September |
Sundial ahead | +16 min 25 s | 3 November |
Same time | 0 min 0 s | 25 December |
For more information see: Equation of Time.
British Summer Time.
In the United Kingdom BST, one hour in advance of GMT, will be kept from 31 Mar 2024 to 27 Oct 2024.
Daylight Saving Time is just a way of fooling people into getting up an hour earlier during the summer months.
2024 Seasons.
- Vernal Equinox - Ostara 20 Mar 03:06
- Summer Solstice - Litha 20 Jun 21:51
- Autumn Equinox - Mabon 22 Sep 13:43
- Winter Solstice - Yule 21 Dec 09:20
2024 Festivals.
Cross Quarter Days
- Imbolc 2 Feb 2024
- Beltain 1 May 2024
- Lammas 1 Aug 2024
- Samhain 31 Oct 2024
Christian Festivals
- Candlemas 2 Feb 2024
- Lent (Ash Wednesday) 14 Feb 2024
- Lady Day 25 Mar 2024
- Palm Sunday 24 Mar 2024
- Easter Sunday 31 Mar 2024
- Ascension Thursday 09 May 2024
- Penticost (Whit Sunday) 19 May 2024
- Midsummer 24 Jun 2024
- Michaelmas 29 Sep 2024
- All Hallows 1 Nov 2024
- Christmas 25 Dec 2024
Islamic Calendar
- Ramadan First day 11 Mar 2024
- Ramadan Last day 10 Apr 2024
- Islamic New Year sunset 7 Jul 1446
Lunar New Year
New Year celebrations in East and Central Asia, based on a lunisolar calendar as used by China, Korea and Vietnam
(some lunar caledars based on the Budist calendar have Lunar New Year in April.)
- Lunar New Year 09 Feb 2024
- Chinese Year of the Dragon
All times are Local time for Hunwick (BST).
Please note: All of the information on this web site is generated by software i have developed and is for personal interest only.
Do not base any decisions on information contained within this page.
While i try to make all information as accurate as possible it may contain errors or omissions.
Weather data from open-meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)
Page generated on 02 May 2024 16:46
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